The caves of the earth : their natural history, features, and incidents.

Date:
[1848?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The caves of the earth : their natural history, features, and incidents. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    to immortal purity, activity, and joy. The former engagement, indeed, has valuable rela- tions to the latter, and may be prosecuted, not only without infringement upon it, but in a way that shall strengthen the homage of the intellect, and the obedience of the heart to it. Natural truth is, in many particulars, in clear and striking alliance with revealed truth. It illustrates the unity of the Divine nature, and the universality of the Divine presence and providence, by manifesting the universal action of fundamental laws, apparent as far as the regions of the creation can be examined by us. It testifies of all that infinitude of power and wisdom, which the Scriptures, in majestic language, ascribe to the “ blessed and only Potentate.” It proclaims the dependence of man, supplies him with motives to thankful devotion and to filial fear, by the display of benign adaptations and awful attributes, while it offers a rebuke to self-degradation and com- placency by the vastness of that scheme of existence which he is able to apprehend, and its boundless amplitude beyond the grasp of his powers. It declares, likewise, his present subjection to a government Avhich mingles in its dispensations painful discipline, and ap- A 3